Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.142 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla4xxx: Prevent a potential error pointer dereference
The qla4xxx_get_ep_fwdb() function is supposed to return NULL on error,
but qla4xxx_ep_connect() returns error pointers. Propagating the error
pointers will lead to an Oops in the caller, so change the error pointers
to NULL.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-05
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_reject: don't leak dst refcount for loopback packets
recent patches to add a WARN() when replacing skb dst entry found an
old bug:
WARNING: include/linux/skbuff.h:1165 skb_dst_check_unset include/linux/skbuff.h:1164 [inline]
WARNING: include/linux/skbuff.h:1165 skb_dst_set include/linux/skbuff.h:1210 [inline]
WARNING: include/linux/skbuff.h:1165 nf_reject_fill_skb_dst+0x2a4/0x330 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c:234
[..]
Call Trace:
nf_send_unreach+0x17b/0x6e0 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c:325
nft_reject_inet_eval+0x4bc/0x690 net/netfilter/nft_reject_inet.c:27
expr_call_ops_eval net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:237 [inline]
..
This is because blamed commit forgot about loopback packets.
Such packets already have a dst_entry attached, even at PRE_ROUTING stage.
Instead of checking hook just check if the skb already has a route
attached to it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-05
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: fix UAF on smcsk after smc_listen_out()
BPF CI testing report a UAF issue:
[ 16.446633] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000003 0
[ 16.447134] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mod e
[ 16.447516] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present pag e
[ 16.447878] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 16.448063] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPT I
[ 16.448409] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G OE 6.13.0-rc3-g89e8a75fda73-dirty #4 2
[ 16.449124] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODUL E
[ 16.449502] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/201 4
[ 16.450201] Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_wor k
[ 16.450531] RIP: 0010:smc_listen_work+0xc02/0x159 0
[ 16.452158] RSP: 0018:ffffb5ab40053d98 EFLAGS: 0001024 6
[ 16.452526] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 000000000000030 0
[ 16.452994] RDX: 0000000000000280 RSI: 00003513840053f0 RDI: 000000000000000 0
[ 16.453492] RBP: ffffa097808e3800 R08: ffffa09782dba1e0 R09: 000000000000000 5
[ 16.453987] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa0978274640 0
[ 16.454497] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffa09782d4092 0
[ 16.454996] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa097bbc00000(0000) knlGS:000000000000000 0
[ 16.455557] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003 3
[ 16.455961] CR2: 0000000000000030 CR3: 0000000102788004 CR4: 0000000000770ef 0
[ 16.456459] PKRU: 5555555 4
[ 16.456654] Call Trace :
[ 16.456832] <TASK >
[ 16.456989] ? __die+0x23/0x7 0
[ 16.457215] ? page_fault_oops+0x180/0x4c 0
[ 16.457508] ? __lock_acquire+0x3e6/0x249 0
[ 16.457801] ? exc_page_fault+0x68/0x20 0
[ 16.458080] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x3 0
[ 16.458389] ? smc_listen_work+0xc02/0x159 0
[ 16.458689] ? smc_listen_work+0xc02/0x159 0
[ 16.458987] ? lock_is_held_type+0x8f/0x10 0
[ 16.459284] process_one_work+0x1ea/0x6d 0
[ 16.459570] worker_thread+0x1c3/0x38 0
[ 16.459839] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x1 0
[ 16.460144] kthread+0xe0/0x11 0
[ 16.460372] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x1 0
[ 16.460640] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x5 0
[ 16.460896] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x1 0
[ 16.461166] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x3 0
[ 16.461453] </TASK >
[ 16.461616] Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(OE) [last unloaded: bpf_testmod(OE) ]
[ 16.462134] CR2: 000000000000003 0
[ 16.462380] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 16.462710] RIP: 0010:smc_listen_work+0xc02/0x1590
The direct cause of this issue is that after smc_listen_out_connected(),
newclcsock->sk may be NULL since it will releases the smcsk. Therefore,
if the application closes the socket immediately after accept,
newclcsock->sk can be NULL. A possible execution order could be as
follows:
smc_listen_work | userspace
-----------------------------------------------------------------
lock_sock(sk) |
smc_listen_out_connected() |
| \- smc_listen_out |
| | \- release_sock |
| |- sk->sk_data_ready() |
| fd = accept();
| close(fd);
| \- socket->sk = NULL;
/* newclcsock->sk is NULL now */
SMC_STAT_SERV_SUCC_INC(sock_net(newclcsock->sk))
Since smc_listen_out_connected() will not fail, simply swapping the order
of the code can easily fix this issue.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-05
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gve: prevent ethtool ops after shutdown
A crash can occur if an ethtool operation is invoked
after shutdown() is called.
shutdown() is invoked during system shutdown to stop DMA operations
without performing expensive deallocations. It is discouraged to
unregister the netdev in this path, so the device may still be visible
to userspace and kernel helpers.
In gve, shutdown() tears down most internal data structures. If an
ethtool operation is dispatched after shutdown(), it will dereference
freed or NULL pointers, leading to a kernel panic. While graceful
shutdown normally quiesces userspace before invoking the reboot
syscall, forced shutdowns (as observed on GCP VMs) can still trigger
this path.
Fix by calling netif_device_detach() in shutdown().
This marks the device as detached so the ethtool ioctl handler
will skip dispatching operations to the driver.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-05
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 power domain descriptors, too
UAC3 power domain descriptors need to be verified with its variable
bLength for avoiding the unexpected OOB accesses by malicious
firmware, too.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: BPF: Fix jump offset calculation in tailcall
The extra pass of bpf_int_jit_compile() skips JIT context initialization
which essentially skips offset calculation leaving out_offset = -1, so
the jmp_offset in emit_bpf_tail_call is calculated by
"#define jmp_offset (out_offset - (cur_offset))"
is a negative number, which is wrong. The final generated assembly are
as follow.
54: bgeu $a2, $t1, -8 # 0x0000004c
58: addi.d $a6, $s5, -1
5c: bltz $a6, -16 # 0x0000004c
60: alsl.d $t2, $a2, $a1, 0x3
64: ld.d $t2, $t2, 264
68: beq $t2, $zero, -28 # 0x0000004c
Before apply this patch, the follow test case will reveal soft lock issues.
cd tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
./test_progs --allow=tailcalls/tailcall_bpf2bpf_1
dmesg:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 26s! [test_progs:25056]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: handle get_client_locked() failure in nfsd4_setclientid_confirm()
Lei Lu recently reported that nfsd4_setclientid_confirm() did not check
the return value from get_client_locked(). a SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM could
race with a confirmed client expiring and fail to get a reference. That
could later lead to a UAF.
Fix this by getting a reference early in the case where there is an
extant confirmed client. If that fails then treat it as if there were no
confirmed client found at all.
In the case where the unconfirmed client is expiring, just fail and
return the result from get_client_locked().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: asix_devices: add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus
Without setting phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus, current driver may create
at most 32 mdio phy devices with phy address range from 0x00 ~ 0x1f.
DLink DUB-E100 H/W Ver B1 is such a device. However, only one main phy
device will bind to net phy driver. This is creating issue during system
suspend/resume since phy_polling_mode() in phy_state_machine() will
directly deference member of phydev->drv for non-main phy devices. Then
NULL pointer dereference issue will occur. Due to only external phy or
internal phy is necessary, add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus to workarnoud
the issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb3: fix for slab out of bounds on mount to ksmbd
With KASAN enabled, it is possible to get a slab out of bounds
during mount to ksmbd due to missing check in parse_server_interfaces()
(see below):
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in
parse_server_interfaces+0x14ee/0x1880 [cifs]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881433dba98 by task mount/9827
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 9827 Comm: mount Tainted: G
OE 6.16.0-rc2-kasan #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision Tower 3620/0MWYPT,
BIOS 2.13.1 06/14/2019
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x9f/0xf0
print_report+0xd1/0x670
__virt_addr_valid+0x22c/0x430
? parse_server_interfaces+0x14ee/0x1880 [cifs]
? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x2a/0x1f0
? parse_server_interfaces+0x14ee/0x1880 [cifs]
kasan_report+0xd6/0x110
parse_server_interfaces+0x14ee/0x1880 [cifs]
__asan_report_load_n_noabort+0x13/0x20
parse_server_interfaces+0x14ee/0x1880 [cifs]
? __pfx_parse_server_interfaces+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? trace_hardirqs_on+0x51/0x60
SMB3_request_interfaces+0x1ad/0x3f0 [cifs]
? __pfx_SMB3_request_interfaces+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? SMB2_tcon+0x23c/0x15d0 [cifs]
smb3_qfs_tcon+0x173/0x2b0 [cifs]
? __pfx_smb3_qfs_tcon+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? cifs_get_tcon+0x105d/0x2120 [cifs]
? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x5d/0x200
? cifs_get_tcon+0x105d/0x2120 [cifs]
? __pfx_smb3_qfs_tcon+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
cifs_mount_get_tcon+0x369/0xb90 [cifs]
? dfs_cache_find+0xe7/0x150 [cifs]
dfs_mount_share+0x985/0x2970 [cifs]
? check_path.constprop.0+0x28/0x50
? save_trace+0x54/0x370
? __pfx_dfs_mount_share+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? __lock_acquire+0xb82/0x2ba0
? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20
cifs_mount+0xbc/0x9e0 [cifs]
? __pfx_cifs_mount+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x5d/0x200
? cifs_setup_cifs_sb+0x29d/0x810 [cifs]
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x263/0x1990 [cifs]
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfs: fix general protection fault in hfs_find_init()
The hfs_find_init() method can trigger the crash
if tree pointer is NULL:
[ 45.746290][ T9787] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 [#1] SMP KAI
[ 45.747287][ T9787] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
[ 45.748716][ T9787] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 9787 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3 #10 PREEMPT(full)
[ 45.750250][ T9787] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 45.751983][ T9787] RIP: 0010:hfs_find_init+0x86/0x230
[ 45.752834][ T9787] Code: c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 9a 01 00 00 4c 8d 6b 40 48 c7 45 18 00 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc
[ 45.755574][ T9787] RSP: 0018:ffffc90015157668 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 45.756432][ T9787] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff819a4d09
[ 45.757457][ T9787] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: ffffffff819acd3a RDI: ffffc900151576e8
[ 45.758282][ T9787] RBP: ffffc900151576d0 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 45.758943][ T9787] R10: 0000000080000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000004
[ 45.759619][ T9787] R13: 0000000000000040 R14: ffff88802c50814a R15: 0000000000000000
[ 45.760293][ T9787] FS: 00007ffb72734540(0000) GS:ffff8880cec64000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 45.761050][ T9787] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 45.761606][ T9787] CR2: 00007f9bd8225000 CR3: 000000010979a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 45.762286][ T9787] Call Trace:
[ 45.762570][ T9787] <TASK>
[ 45.762824][ T9787] hfs_ext_read_extent+0x190/0x9d0
[ 45.763269][ T9787] ? submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x2dd/0xce0
[ 45.763766][ T9787] ? __pfx_hfs_ext_read_extent+0x10/0x10
[ 45.764250][ T9787] hfs_get_block+0x55f/0x830
[ 45.764646][ T9787] block_read_full_folio+0x36d/0x850
[ 45.765105][ T9787] ? __pfx_hfs_get_block+0x10/0x10
[ 45.765541][ T9787] ? const_folio_flags+0x5b/0x100
[ 45.765972][ T9787] ? __pfx_hfs_read_folio+0x10/0x10
[ 45.766415][ T9787] filemap_read_folio+0xbe/0x290
[ 45.766840][ T9787] ? __pfx_filemap_read_folio+0x10/0x10
[ 45.767325][ T9787] ? __filemap_get_folio+0x32b/0xbf0
[ 45.767780][ T9787] do_read_cache_folio+0x263/0x5c0
[ 45.768223][ T9787] ? __pfx_hfs_read_folio+0x10/0x10
[ 45.768666][ T9787] read_cache_page+0x5b/0x160
[ 45.769070][ T9787] hfs_btree_open+0x491/0x1740
[ 45.769481][ T9787] hfs_mdb_get+0x15e2/0x1fb0
[ 45.769877][ T9787] ? __pfx_hfs_mdb_get+0x10/0x10
[ 45.770316][ T9787] ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80
[ 45.770731][ T9787] ? lockdep_init_map_type+0x5c/0x280
[ 45.771200][ T9787] ? lockdep_init_map_type+0x5c/0x280
[ 45.771674][ T9787] hfs_fill_super+0x38e/0x720
[ 45.772092][ T9787] ? __pfx_hfs_fill_super+0x10/0x10
[ 45.772549][ T9787] ? snprintf+0xbe/0x100
[ 45.772931][ T9787] ? __pfx_snprintf+0x10/0x10
[ 45.773350][ T9787] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x129/0x2b0
[ 45.773796][ T9787] ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80
[ 45.774215][ T9787] ? set_blocksize+0x40a/0x510
[ 45.774636][ T9787] ? sb_set_blocksize+0x176/0x1d0
[ 45.775087][ T9787] ? setup_bdev_super+0x369/0x730
[ 45.775533][ T9787] get_tree_bdev_flags+0x384/0x620
[ 45.775985][ T9787] ? __pfx_hfs_fill_super+0x10/0x10
[ 45.776453][ T9787] ? __pfx_get_tree_bdev_flags+0x10/0x10
[ 45.776950][ T9787] ? bpf_lsm_capable+0x9/0x10
[ 45.777365][ T9787] ? security_capable+0x80/0x260
[ 45.777803][ T9787] vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x340
[ 45.778203][ T9787] path_mount+0x13de/0x2010
[ 45.778604][ T9787] ? kmem_cache_free+0x2b0/0x4c0
[ 45.779052][ T9787] ? __pfx_path_mount+0x10/0x10
[ 45.779480][ T9787] ? getname_flags.part.0+0x1c5/0x550
[ 45.779954][ T9787] ? putname+0x154/0x1a0
[ 45.780335][ T9787] __x64_sys_mount+0x27b/0x300
[ 45.780758][ T9787] ? __pfx___x64_sys_mount+0x10/0x10
[ 45.781232][ T9787]
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-04